Sol 5.6

  1. Whatever you hope for from a created being

    is liable to some manner of obstruction.

  2. And I say—asking forgiveness of Al—

    —lah—in figurative speech, not literal truth:

  3. I approve of nothing that Iblis did,

    save his withholding prostration from a created being.

  4. My Lord, in commanding prostration, never bade

    them prostrate themselves to a created being.

  5. For He is God, self-revealed through an act

    issuing from Him, manifest in all realities—

  6. doing whatever He wills through the person, all from Him,

    while that person fades like a phantom visiting by night.

  7. God forbid that my Lord should command unbelief,

    or prostration to any but the Lord of sunrise.

Sol 5.6